Reply #46: Nuclear waste. [View All]

[Oerdin]

"The amount of nuclear waste we have generated is small compared to other toxic wastes our society generates."

The volume of al the nuclear waste produced from 1945 until today in the entire world would fit in one football stadium. Or so it has been reported anyway. Further more the French have built fully working "breeder reactors" which they use to recycle their nuclear waste. The breeder reactors take large quantities of low level waste (the stuff found in spent fuel rods) and refine it into small quantities of high level material. That recycled material is then once again put into the regular neclear power plant. Through this method of recycling we can produce absolutely mind boggling amounts of electricity (enough to power the whole country) while producing almost no waste. This is the best option we have to get the power we need without screwing the enviroment.